Legendary Outlaw Billy Joe Shaver Brings Texas to Buffalo

Billy Joe Shaver will be playing The Sportsmen’s Tavern Tuesday July 8 at 8p.

Any classic country junky has heard Honky Tonk Heroes, Waylon Jennings’ landmark album or heard Johnny Cash’s “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal.”

Shaver’s career has been the stuff of legends, hitchhiking to Nashville in 1965, Jennings cutting the Shaver classics to receiving the Americana Music Award for Lifetime Achievement in Songwriting in 2002 and being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Shaver’s latest album, Long In The Tooth is out August 5th on Lightning Rod Records.

It’s Gonzo Journalism meets Outlaw Country as TJ Music Magazine – Turnstyled, Junkpiled shakes things up in the Sin City and beyond. “Waiting for the day when they stop calling it Americana and start calling it Country again.”